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"Community civics" developed as a new American school program for citizenship education at the turn of the twentieth century. It conceived of good citizens as individuals who understood, valued, and lived in a manner that nurtured "communities" and was linked to Progressivist philosophy. Like many American educational ideas, it found its way into Canada. After briefly describing Community Civics, this paper presents the findings of a case study of one BC school that illustrates how it attempted to develop a common feeling of community in its student body through its textbooks and school culture from the 1920s to the 1940s.

Uses interview data from 1,600 residents in two suburban NJ & two inner-city NY school districts to investigate parental preferences for different aspects of education. Results show that parents of different socioeconomic & racial backgrounds find different school attributes important, but these differences are not the ones emphasized by most current literature. Any differentiation along socioeconomic status (SES) & racial lines in the choice of schools does not necessarily result from parents of higher SES strategically placing their children in the best schools. Rather, differences may emerge as the result of "sorting," wherein lower-SES parents stress a different set of values in education & choose schools that reflect the different dimensions of education they view as important. 1 Table, 39 References. Adapted from the source document.

Purpose– This paper aims to report the efforts to reverse a dire research output trend at a Ghanaian Business School, following a similar effort at a business school in New Zealand in the 1990s. African universities are often challenged by resource constraints, ageing faculty and low compensation regimes. The consequences of these challenges are particularly felt in the area of the research output of faculty members in the business and management area. The problem of low research output has been written about by management scholars who lament the weak showing of African management faculty in reputable journals and top-notch conference presentations.Design/methodology/approach– This is a qualitative and phenomenological study of an applied intervention. Using a combination of open-ended questionnaires as well as open forums attended by faculty members of the business school, views, perceptions and opinions on factors mitigating research and issues on research culture were collected and analysed. Descriptive analyses were used to collate the dominant views and frequency of mention of such views.Findings– Using the descriptive accounts of faculty of the Business School, the research finds that a research-oriented culture expressed through factors such as leadership, institutional support, articulation or otherwise of relevant values have significant impacts on research output.Research limitations/implications– Based on the impacts reported here, this paper advances an intervention model to assist efforts towards improving the research culture and scholarly outputs in business schools in Africa. The paper also proposes a conceptual and research framework for examining and influencing the organisational and research culture of universities in Africa.Originality/value– This paper is perhaps the only attempt to examine research culture in an African business school. It suggests that the research culture in a business school or faculty can be developed, reinvented or influenced and that research in African universities will not "just happen", it has to be carefully planned for, nurtured and built into the fabric of university culture. This has significant implications for the growing effort to bring African scholarship in the management areas up to the point where it can more directly impact management thinking.

This book argues for the importance of the theory of the culture industry in today's world. It begins by considering the neglect of the culture industry in the second and third generation of the Frankfurt School, presenting historical background information and criticisms on the theories of Habermas and Honneth. In our age, the culture industry is something quite different from what Adorno and Horkheimer described or could even imagine in the twentieth century. Today, the masses can not only access the media but can also respond to the messages they receive. A key question that arises, then, is why the masses, even after gaining access to their own media, still adhere to the values of the capitalist system? Why haven't they achieved a class consciousness? This work seeks to answer those questions. Drawing on Jean Baudrillard's work, it reveals the semiotic aspects of the culture industry and describes the industry in the age of simulation and hyperreality. The book argues that the culture industry has now entered the micro level of our everyday life through shopping centers, the image of profusion and more. Further, it explores new aspects of the culture industry, such as a passion for participating in the media, the consumed vertigo of catastrophe, and masking the absence of a profound reality. As such, the book will particularly appeal to graduates and researchers in sociology and sociological theory, and all those with an interest in the Frankfurt School and the works of Jean Baudrillard.